Volume 6, Chapter 12 – Seles’ Twisted Hobby

Skill Copying.

To be honest, before hearing Seles state this as fact, Danqiu Yibai had not really believed it.

But judging from the Whirlwind Slash earlier and the Blade Storm just now, it was very likely that what Seles said was true.

“Seriously, there actually is a skill-copying kind of ability…”

His HP bar was about to bottom out. Danqiu Yibai knew that he might actually die in the very next second.

And precisely because he understood that he was about to die, his mood at this moment was, unexpectedly, as calm as a still lake without the slightest ripple.

“So in the end I was too careless… or was it because I was too full of myself?”

“Full of yourself? Careless?”

Listening to Danqiu Yibai murmuring to himself, Seles covered her mouth and laughed softly.

Right after, a magic circle appeared out of thin air in front of Danqiu Yibai.

“It is not that you were full of yourself. After all, in this world, aside from the people who die by my hand, absolutely no one knows that I have the ability to copy other people’s abilities~”

“The ability to copy abilities…”

In the end, as Danqiu Yibai muttered to himself, the flames that surged out of the magic circle instantly engulfed him, who had already given up on resisting.

And with that, the Kongjing guild’s one and only Legendary guild leader died in the hands of an NPC.

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“Dead, huh?”

Feeling that all signs of life had vanished from Danqiu Yibai, who was wrapped in flames, Seles only shifted her attention after confirming that he was truly dead.

Her gaze moved to the group of Dark Elves huddled to the side, all shaking like leaves.

Among these Dark Elves there was also one at Legendary rank. Of course, this Dark Elf was exactly the target that the outsider who had just died, the player Danqiu Yibai, had wanted to kill.

“Y… Your Majesty the Queen…”

Feeling Seles’s gaze fall on them, the Legendary Dark Elf at the front scrambled over, rolling and crawling, not caring in the least about the dignity of a Legendary, until she reached Seles.

As she addressed Seles as Queen, that Dark Elf’s delicate body was trembling nonstop.

“Aldai, do you know why I showed up here ahead of schedule?”

Looking at Aldai, the Dark Elf kneeling before her in an unbelievably humble posture, Seles’ exquisite little face showed a harmless smile. But in those beautiful gem-like eyes there was no trace of emotion.

“Your Majesty the Queen… a-according to… according to my guess, it should be that the main army behind us has already arrived in the Main World, right?”

“Mm, the main army really has arrived here… But Aldai, that is not something you need to guess. My question was clearly whether you know why I suddenly appeared here.”

It was obvious that Seles was not very satisfied with Aldai’s answer.

After hearing the displeasure in Seles’s words, Aldai’s expression clearly turned flustered.

“Your Majesty the Queen… I-I did not mean to run away… it was because, because there were too many of them… Really, Your Majesty, those outsiders were far too many. No matter how we killed them, they just would not die… it was just too bizarre…”

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“Would not die? There is no such thing as a truly unkillable existence in this world.”

At Aldai’s words, Seles let out a scornful laugh.

“I can kill even Legendaries, you know. As for your little act of turning tail and running at the last moment, that can be ignored. I actually cannot even be bothered to pursue your responsibility.”

Looking at the Dark Elf in front of her hanging her head, nervous and afraid, Seles’ tone suddenly shifted.

“So, this time I actually did not come with the intention of punishing you.”

“M-My Lady?”

Even though Seles’s words had clearly hinted that she apparently would not hold Aldai’s last-minute escape against her, for some reason Aldai still felt that something was off.

So, out of caution, Aldai wanted to confirm Seles’s meaning once more.

“Your Majesty the Queen, you really do not intend to pursue this with me?”

“Pursue it?”

Seles glanced at the Dark Elf girl.

“Right now I really do not intend to hold you responsible.”

“N-Not hold me responsible?”

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Having received Seles’ confirmation, Aldai could not help letting out a breath of relief. The heart that had been jammed in her throat slowly, slowly began to settle down.

And just when Aldai thought that maybe she actually was in the clear this time, Seles’s voice suddenly rang out.

“But… Aldai, I am now planning to make trouble for you.”

Watching Aldai, whose face was gradually relaxing, Seles suddenly changed the direction of her words and, just like that, said something so abrupt.

“Eh?”

Aldai’s face went blank for a moment, then quickly twisted into a panicked look filled with disbelief.

“Your Majesty the Queen… y-you mean…?”

“What I mean? Did I not already make myself very clear?”

“But you just said… you were not going to cause me trouble…”

“Yup, that was just now~”

Looking at Aldai’s face, which was full of doubt and unease, Seles lightly curled her lips and showed a meaningful smile.

“What I said just now was indeed that I would not cause you trouble right now. But that ‘not cause you trouble for now’ at that time did not mean ‘never cause you trouble in the future’~”

“So what I promised you just now was indeed that I would not cause you trouble, but I never promised that I would not cause you trouble from now on, did I?”

“What I promised you earlier only applied to what had just happened. As for now… this is already beyond the period of our little agreement.”

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“So, I did not lie to you~”

Under Aldai’s utterly stunned gaze, Seles directly used a justification that sounded quite strange to explain her own behavior.

As Seles’s voice fell, one intricate, profound magic circle after another floated into the air.

“For me, one example of deserting in battle is enough.”

Looking at the deathly pale Aldai, Seles arranged more than one magic circle around her in that instant.

“You really do not understand why I would use that kind of weird talk to trick you, do you?”

“Why?”

Aldai simply could not accept Seles’s earlier explanation.

And in fact…

“You do not understand, right? Not understanding is just right. After all, for every person or elf in this world, there are things they like and things they dislike.”

“Of course, to expand on that, every person, every elf, has their own hobbies.”

“And for me, one of those hobbies is to give people hope in their moment of despair, and then, at the very instant they think that hope has saved them… push them back into despair~”